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Shiinotic's "Calming Light" Effect (asleep) Cancelled by "Dangerous Laser" (item)

I encountered a bug where the effect of Shiinotic's Calming Light was unintentionally cancelled when I used the item card "Dangerous Laser".

  1. I used Brute Bonnet's Toxic Powder to poison the opponent's active Pokemon.
  2. Then used Shiinotic's Calming Light to put the opponent's active Pokemon to sleep.
  3. Then used "Dangerous Laser" item to apply Burn and Confusion.
  4. But during Step 3, Dangerous Laser removed the Sleep status, which should NOT have happened.

Below is the game log for that turn. I've highlighted the part where the sleep status was removed by Dangerous Laser.

Please help me understand. If this is a bug, please fix.
Thank you.

Turn # 8 - Cielas's Turn

Cielas drew Earthen Vessel.

Cielas evolved Morelull to Shiinotic on the Bench.

Cielas attached Ancient Booster Energy Capsule to Brute Bonnet on the Bench.

Cielas played Town Store.

- Cielas drew Forest Seal Stone.

- Cielas shuffled their deck.

Cielas played Pecharunt to the Bench.

Cielas played Nest Ball.

- Cielas drew Hisuian Sneasler V and played it to the Bench.

- Cielas shuffled their deck.

Cielas played Dark Patch.

- Cielas attached Basic Darkness Energy to Hisuian Sneasler V on the Bench.

Cielas attached Basic Darkness Energy to Hisuian Sneasler V on the Bench.

Cielas played Morelull to the Bench.

Cielas played Switch.

- Cielas's Shiinotic was switched with Cielas's Pecharunt ex to become the Active Pokémon.

Cielas's Shiinotic is now in the Active Spot.

Cielas's Shiinotic used Calming Light.

- (Opponent)'s Hydreigon ex is now Asleep.

Cielas's Brute Bonnet used Toxic Powder.

- Cielas's Shiinotic is now Poisoned.

- (Opponent)'s Hydreigon ex is now Poisoned.

Cielas attached Forest Seal Stone to Hisuian Sneasler V on the Bench.

Cielas's Hisuian Sneasler V used Star Alchemy.

- Cielas drew Dangerous Laser.

- Cielas shuffled their deck.

Cielas can no longer use VSTAR Powers.

Cielas's Pecharunt ex used Subjugating Chains.

- Cielas's Hisuian Sneasler V was switched with Cielas's Shiinotic to become the Active Pokémon.

- Cielas's Hisuian Sneasler V is now Poisoned.

Cielas's Hisuian Sneasler V is now in the Active Spot.

Cielas played Colress's Tenacity.

- Cielas drew 2 cards.

• Perilous Jungle, Basic Darkness Energy

- Cielas shuffled their deck.

Cielas played Dangerous Laser.

- (Opponent)'s Hydreigon ex is now Burned.

- (Opponent)'s Hydreigon ex is no longer Asleep. ********************************************!!

- (Opponent)'s Hydreigon ex is now Confused.

Cielas played Perilous Jungle to the Stadium spot.

- Cielas discarded Town Store.

Cielas's Hisuian Sneasler V used Dire Claw on Peentang’s Hydreigon ex for 240 damage.

Comments

  • statman90
    statman90 Member Posts: 3
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    At any one time, a Pokémon can only be affected by one of: Asleep, Paralysed or Confused. Burn and Poison stack. So by using the Laser you are replacing the effect of Sleep with Confusion.

  • Pokémon342548
    Pokémon342548 Member Posts: 237 ✭✭✭
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    You can't apply more than 3 (of 5) Special Conditions to your opponent's Active Pokémon at a time. It can be Burned and Poisoned, but for the rest (Asleep, Confused, and Paralyzed), you can only apply 1 more of them.

  • OlderAngel11
    OlderAngel11 Member Posts: 1,743 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    The previous two comments are correct. There are five special conditions: Burned, Poisoned, Paralyzed, Asleep, and Confused. This is understood most simply when thinking about the irl cards, because of how you display the conditions. Burned and Poisoned have their own coins that you place on your card when it has the affect. But Paralyzed, Asleep, and Confused are all displayed by tilting the card. For Paralyzed, you turn to the right. For asleep, you turn to the left. For confused, you turn it upside down. Given the obvious, your card cannot be turned in multiple directions at once. It cannot be left and right at the same time. Thus, the most recent special condition overrides the previous one, assuming that previous one is not burn or poison. Therefore, this is not a glitch and is intentional. Hope this helps!

  • TechHog
    TechHog Member Posts: 2,887 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    You can't be asleep and confused at the same time.